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The Welsh And Their Literature

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George Borrow

Originally an article in the US Edition of the London Quarterly Review, George Borrow offers a sweeping history of Welsh literature, beginni…

The Path of Light - The Bodhi-Charyavatara of Santi-Deva

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Shantideva

Shantideva is particularly renowned as the author of the Bodhicaryavatara (sometimes also called the Bodhisattvacaryavatara). An English tra…

Meister Eckhart's Sermons: First Time Translated into English

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Meister Eckhart

"If a piece of wood became as aware of the nearness of God as an archangel is, the piece of wood would be as happy as an archangel.&quo…

Chapter 18 Judy's news

In Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood

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George MacDonald

This delightful story begins in a little town called Marshmallows, where a young man, the new vicar, Harry Walton, has just arrived. As he b…

Preface and Question 1 - OF MAN'S LAST END (In Eight Articles)

In Summa Theologica - 06 Pars Prima Secundae, On the Last End, On Human Acts

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Saint Thomas Aquinas

The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written between 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas, eve…

Panegyric of Birds

In Essays and Dialogues

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Giacomo Leopardi

"We would no more choose to feed the minds of our countrymen and women with the despairing utterances of the pessimist poet, than we wo…

Religio Medici

In Songs of the Road

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Although best known for the creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle did not only write works of mystery and of adventu…